
Philip Brown was an American actor. Brown was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After majoring in dramatics at Stanford University where he was a Brother of Beta Theta Pi Fraternity, Brown played some of his earliest stage roles as part of New York's Group Theater. When it folded, he and other Group Theatre veterans headed to Hollywood, where Brown worked in motion pictures and helped found the fabled Actors' Laboratory. In 1946, he played Ernest Hemingway's famous protagonist Nick Adams in Robert Siodmak's version of The Killers, alongside William Conrad and Charles McGraw as the titular "killers". His association with the Lab came back to haunt him later in the decade, when its members fell under the scrutiny of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Although he was not a communist, Brown was blacklisted in 1952, and was eventually compelled to relocate with his family to England between 1953 and 1993. Overseas he was able to resume acting on stage, TV and films; he also directed for the stage and TV. He was best known for his role as Luke Skywalker's uncle, Owen Lars, in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977). He returned to the United States in the 1990s and in later years made the rounds of autograph shows. Phil Brown died of pneumonia on February 9, 2006 at the age of 89.

Star Wars
1977 · as Uncle Owen

Superman
1978 · as State Senator

Chaplin
1992 · as Projectionist

The Pink Panther Strikes Again
1976 · as Virginia Senator

The Killers
1946 · as Nick Adams (uncredited)

Obsession
1949 · as Bill Kronin

Valdez Is Coming
1971 · as Malson

John Paul Jones
1959 · as Sentry

Twilight's Last Gleaming
1977 · as Rev. Cartwright

A King in New York
1957 · as Headmaster

The Bedford Incident
1965 · as Chief Hospitalman Mckinley - Sick Bay

I Wanted Wings
1941 · as Jimmy Masters

Tropic of Cancer
1970 · as Van Norden

Hello, Annapolis
1942 · as Kansas City

The Jungle Captive
1945 · as Don Young

The Counterfeit Traitor
1962 · as Harold Murray (uncredited)

The Romantic Englishwoman
1975 · as Mr. Wilson

Johnny O'Clock
1947 · as Phil, Hotel Clerk